Ronald Acuña has scare as Atlanta Braves dominate the Nationals
Ronald Acuña was removed from the game, but Braves win in convincing fashion.
The Atlanta Braves faced the Washington Nationals this evening in hopes of winning their MLB leading sixth straight win behind their new and improved ERA leader, Bryce Elder. The Nationals came into the game scoring the third most runs per game in all of MLB thus far this season, but also have an ERA north of six. The first inning did not start out great for Atlanta.
The Braves were facing Jake Irving and his subpar 6. 16 ERA. The Braves were sat down in order without a baserunner.
Bryce Elder then had one of his worst innings this season in the bottom half of the inning. He was able to sit down the first two hitters with a groundout and pop up, but then it went south fast. He gave up a single to House and then walked Abrams and Lile to load the bases.
Young then singled to score two runs to make the score 0-2. Finally Elder was able to end the inning with a strikeout. It was more of the same for the Braves offensively in the second.
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